Golden StArt with Peter Dunne

Golden StArt with Peter Dunne
Tuesday, July 29, 3:00-4:00pm
FREE, RSVP Recommended
Location: Foothills Art Center – Creative Campus, 809 15th Street.

Description: Golden StArt is a joint one-hour meetup program designed to bring artists in the area together with the Golden community to meet and talk about art. Join us for a chat with writer, Peter Dunne.

About Peter:
Peter Dunne, an award-winning producer and writer, brings more than three decades of writing and producing experience to workshops around the world. He served as Vice President of Development for several Hollywood studios before beginning his career as a screenwriter and producer focusing on social justice and cultural reform. Shows he has produced and/or written include the mini-series Sybil starring Sally Field, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, JAG, Melrose Place, Dallas, Knots
Landing, Eight is Enough, Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, Diagnosis: Murder, Nowhere Man, Love Boat, among many others.
His honors include:
~ The Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Drama
~ The Prestigious Peabody Award for Conspicuous Service to Broadcasting for Social Change
~ The Kennedy Foundation Award for Exceptional Achievement in the Field of Mental Retardation
~ The Paul Newman Foundation Award for Exceptional Television Writing on Substance Abuse
~ The Chicago International Film Festival Silver Hugo Award for Achievement in Television Drama
~ The Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence for Family Drama
~ The Motion Picture and Television Foundation Award for Exceptional Service
~ The National Presidential Medal for Volunteer Service
He has taught writing for film and television at UCLA, and Antioch University, lectured in Creative Writing and Memoir Writing at UCLA, Santa Clara University, the University of Southern California, and Journalism for Social Change at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, at the University of Central America in El Salvador, and The Central Coast Writers Conference. He has led fiction workshops in the U.S., and as writer-in-residence at The Anam Cara Writer’s and Artist’s Retreat in West Cork, Ireland. He
founded The Grey Quill Society, a Contemplative Memoir Workshop, and is Founding Editor of their publication, The Grey Quill Society Review.

Peter is the author of the seminal book Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot published by Quill Driver Press, and a contributing writer to Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond, published by I.B. Taurus, London. He served on the advisory board of UCLA’s Writers Program film publications Cut to the Chase and Inside the Room, and authored the official centennial book Beverly Hills: The First One Hundred Years for Rizzoli.
A dual-citizen of the United States and Ireland, Dunne is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Producers Guild of America, The Irish Writers Union, and Irish PEN.